Re: [R] slow dget

dput/dget were not intended to save/restore large objects. Understand what is happening in the use of dput/dget. dput is creating a text file that can reconstitute the object with dget. dget is having to read the file in and then parse it: dget function (file) eval(parse(file = file))

[R] slow dget

I have a data structure that is fast to dput(), but very slow to dget(). On disk, the file is about 35MB. system.time(dget(r.txt)) user system elapsed 142.931.27 192.84 The same data structure is fast to save() and fast to load(). The .RData file on disk is about 12MB.